Deutsche Bahn suffered more than 3, 000 thefts affecting 11, 000 trains and causing 150, 000 minutes of delays.
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These include Deutsche Bahn from Germany, SNCF in France, Eurostar as well as operators from Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium.
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Deutsche Bahn, which faces a liberalised European market, may not issue voting shares to outside investors, the party has decided.
Mr Mehdorn's adventures with Deutsche Bahn began when he joined as chief executive in 1999, after a career at engineering firms.
Some train services were delayed Wednesday, Deutsche Bahn spokesman Holger Auferkamp said, but Berlin's metro system, or S-Bahn, has not been affected.
In March last year, FirstGroup, National Express, Stagecoach, and Arriva, a division of Deutsche Bahn, were short-listed for the Great Western franchise.
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But he also sees no alternative to diversification beyond rail, given the protectionism in Europe, which would otherwise constrain Deutsche Bahn's growth.
Some train services were delayed Wednesday, said Holger Auferkamp, spokesman for national railway operator Deutsche Bahn, but Berlin's metro system, or S-Bahn, was not affected.
Deutsche Bahn has said it may start those operations in 2016.
All of this provides a cautionary tale for Deutsche Bahn, the state-owned railway, which won government approval last week to prepare for privatisation in 2009.
Deutsche Bahn has around 45, 000 unsackable civil servants on its payroll.
Private bomb disposal teams are contracted by German railway operator Deutsche Bahn and other companies to check that sites are safe when building works are planned.
In Germany, where Deutsche Bahn is roaring ahead with its express trains and its global freight and logistics business, many managers came from Lufthansa, bringing airline techniques.
The recent and upcoming changes are partly in anticipation of competition from Deutsche Bahn for train service through the Channel Tunnel, which Eurostar has monopolized until now.
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Lufthansa already co-operates with German rail operator Deutsche Bahn on journeys to Frankfurt airport, but a spokesperson said there were no plans to extend this for the time being.
Their presence is sufficiently common that private bomb disposal teams are contracted by German railway operator Deutsche Bahn and other companies to check that sites are safe when building works are planned.
Some other routes there is not so much potential --Frankfurt to Marseille -- so let's do the service together between Deutsche Bahn and SNCF so customers can just change trains without changing their tickets.
With car-sharing, multi-storey car parks at stations and even bicycle hire added to its portfolio under Mr Mehdorn, Deutsche Bahn is sending the message that rail is only one part, albeit the core, of the services it provides.
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Does Hartmut Mehdorn, the head of Deutsche Bahn whose contract ends in 2008, really want to saddle his successor with the kind of problems faced by Mr Obermann at Deutsche Telekom: shareholder pressure on one side and powerful unions, plus a legacy of state ownership on the other?
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